Kauai News

The county is notifying and reminding Kaua‘i property owners that their first installment of real property taxes for fiscal year 2022-23 is coming due.

The inaugural four-week cohort of a new institute aimed at training Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders who work in museums and cultural heritage centers is underway.

The state Judiciary will soon be sending out its annual juror questionnaire.

Ballots for the 2022 primary election should be delivered to most mailboxes by the middle of this week and there are several locations around the island where they can be returned.

The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center will lead a study to examine structural racism to understand how persistent racial and ethnic inequities in Native Hawaiian, African American, Japanese American and Latino adults contribute to different smoking behaviors and lung cancer risk.

The state Judiciary is seeking applicants to serve on the Board of Bar Examiners.

One of the state’s largest gasoline marketers and convenience store operators wants to help a nonprofit organization that assists seriously ill keiki and their families.

With many local employers seeking to fill vacant positions, University of Hawai‘i community colleges are continuing to offer free short-term training that leads to industry credentials in the sectors of health care, technology and the skilled trades.

Continuing work to improve a roadway in Kapa‘a will again require portions of it to be closed.

The 21st annual Native Hawaiian Convention hosted by the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement (CNHA) continued this week with more than 1,500 community members attended.

The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center will be on-site at the Kaua‘i Resource Center, 3460 Ahukini Road in Līhu‘e, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, July 29.

Members from Kaua’i’s Committee on the Status of Women attended the inaugural State of Women in Hawai’i Conference to discuss women’s liberation through advocacy and awareness, youth mental health, and community cohesion in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the landmark Roe V. Wade ruling last month.

The Department of Public Works and its contractor Pipeworks announced that a portion of Umi Street, between Rice Street and Ewalu Street, in Līhu‘e will be closed July 25-29 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., weather permitting.

The state Department of Transportation issued its weekly road and lane closure list for July 23-29. Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice. All projects are weather permitting.

Next month, DLNR is partnering with Island Conservation to host an art show focused on the natural beauty, native species and powerful mana of Lehua Island.

A blessing was held today, Friday, July 22, for the completion of the Mana Olana Emergency and Transitional Shelter improvements project at Kaua‘i Economic Opportunity in Līhu‘e.

Gov. David Ige signed a third emergency proclamation to allow the continuation of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in line with the federal COVID emergency, Ige’s office announced Friday, July 22.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) has identified three additional cases of monkeypox, the department stated Friday, July 22. It brings the total number of cases in Hawaiʻi to 11.

The public is hereby notified that the initial mailing of ballots for the 2022 Primary Election will be on Friday, July 22.

A new style of boot brush station could hep reduce the spread of a scourge that has wreaked havoc on Big Island ‘ōhiʻa forests.